Bill > SB741

Introduced Session

Directs Department of Human Services to adopt administrative rules for home studies and placement reports in adoption proceedings that require that equal consideration be given to relatives and current caretakers as prospective adoptive parents, and that greater consideration be given to relatives and current caretakers as compared to other persons who are not relatives or current caretakers. Limits court's discretion to direct department to place or maintain child or ward where effect would be to remove child or ward from adoptive parent. Requires public or private agency with guardianship or legal custody of child or ward to file report with juvenile court when agency has removed or plans to remove child or ward from foster home for purpose of placing child or ward in different substitute care placement with certain exceptions. Becomes operative September 1, 2015, and January 1, 2016. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

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Alan Olsen (R)*,  Chip Shields (D)*,  Sara Gelser Blouin (D),  Betsy Johnson (I),  Laurie Monnes Anderson (D),  Andy Olson (R),  Duane Stark (R),  Jennifer Williamson (D), 

Effective date, July 27, 2015. (on 07/28/2015)

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